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I really like quick, no pressure projects.
My daughter ask me yesterday how to glue straws to a piece a plastic packaging to make a table for her AG doll. Of course I dismissed that notion and volunteered to make her a table.
From the scrap bin she picked out a piece of Jatoba. A 3/8” oak dowel and we are under way.
Resaw and plane….
The real value in these little projects is the freedom to experiment. I wanted to try splaying the legs in both dimensions. This looks like a good angle. It turned out to be 9 degrees.
Of course, a jig will help keep the angles consistent. I drilled a 3/8” hole in a scrap piece of 2×4. The marked off angle a...